The Night Pompeii Died
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- This second episode of a three-part series exploring the intertwined histories of Pompeii and Vesuvius investigates Europe’s most dangerous volcano, and retraces the eruption of 79 AD.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:54 Magellan TV
2:49 Historical eruptions of Vesuvius
5:05 The eruption of 79 AD
6:30 Pliny's account
7:57 Reconstructing the eruption
10:35 Aftermath
the graph plotting romans having a good time vs the romans absolutely not having a good time sent me to orbit
Que?
@@professorsogol5824 he went up to the ISS to contemplate what he learned
@@professorsogol5824 go to the 8:12 mark
@@stein1919 Please excuse me; I'm from Barcelona. But I do not see a GRAPH with data points plotted at 8:12 or anywhere else in this video. That having been said, I did find the relevant words in small, very hard to read print at the bottom of the MAP at 8:12
@@professorsogol5824 do women like pedants in Barcelona?
This is such a cool little series you're doing here. Your ability to articulate the day to day aspects of the citizens of Pompeii's lives and what it might have been like to experience this event is wonderful, as terrifying as it was. I think most of us who are interested in Rome and history in general probably wonder what it might have been like to experience these events first hand. Your channel does a wonderful job of transporting us back in time and allowing us an insight into what that might've been like. Thank you for that!
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@@AxxLAfriku what the girlfriends have to do with this video?
@@robertdavis3433 he's trying to get you to watch his stupid videos
"A red rimmed sun settled, cinder cold, over the buried city of Pompeii" 🔥🔥🔥
He does have a way with words
I never thought I would write this about a historical education video, but the introduction part was surprisingly disturbing and terrifying, especially with that abrupt end of narration! Of course, I mean that as a compliment; that was awesome sound editing! Great work, dr. Ryan! Looking forward to the next chapter!
Your storytelling is so so engaging! You really get a sense of what it would have felt like and how terrifying it must’ve felt to actually experience a disaster like that!
I enjoy that your incorporating your writing skill into your videos
It’s like a book in a video form, which would actually be a cool idea
An animated book instead of an audio book
It must have been extremely scary, not knowing anything about the scientific world and the mountain that ‘watched’ over your village becoming the source of your doom
Atm more people than ever live closer than ever to the caldera. Lots of them know exactly how vulcano’s ‘work’ but if the big one comes do you reckon they will be less scared or more because they know what’s coming?
@@noeraldinkabam Next to Mt Fuji it's to date the most dangerous volcanic threat to human life.
@@noeraldinkabam that absolutely true, however, today they know what the warning signs are and what they mean. So, if they take it seriously, they'll have a chance to leave and save their lives. At the time, they didn't know what the warning signs were or what they meant
@@step2058 not really true, in fact, even in that region (i.e: in what could be covered by the immediate eruption) the main threat comes today from a different volcano, which is much more violent/dangerous in it's eruption type (more viscous lava causing potentially much more explosive eruptions with large fast moving Pyroclastic flows coming towards some very densely populated areas).... for Tokyo itself, I would say the greatest danger is one of the chain of five or six volcanoes found in the bay (the Izu-Shoto island chain)... notably, some of those islands are Santorini style exploded caldera's, whilst the others have regularly erupting volcanic cones. when one of them goes, the area prone to be submerged by a Tsunami within the next 20minutes or has about 25million residents with another 15million or so further inland. Fuji is a volcano with a standard eruption of relatively fast moving but low temperature lava which does not form Pyroclastic flows or serious amounts of Ash...
I think we overestimate how much they were ignorant, their knowledge of volcanology can be compared to our knowledge of solar flares... nowhere near to extensive, but they had basic theories of how it worked and knew of relation between increased earthquake activity and Eruptions.... they (or at least the Syracusans) even theorized about the existence of Magma Chambers (though they believed magma got heated inside these, with the resulting boiling causing the tremors)
Very evocative! Somehow the people in Herculaneum, hiding near the shore and hoping for safety seem especially poignant to me. They seemed closer to escaping, but then you look at the high wall of pumice and ash which buried them and realize they really didn't have the chance they thought they had unless they had left far earlier! I've always felt the tragedy of the eruption much more powerfully at Herculaneum...
Loving that map legend.... Roman's having a good time, and Roman's absolutely not having a good time...priceless
Dang, it was interesting, but i was really expecting to continue the story about maria and the other guy, now that was interesting.
I love Pliny the Younger's description - because it is so human - he says that the men were shouting the names of their wives and children - trying to find them in the black cloud - and the women were praying to the gods for mercy -
I think that Pliny the Younger's account may be the first eyewitenes account of an actual event that we can rely on - it all just rings so true - it's exactly what people now a days would do, if faced with the same conditions -
I got shivers reading Pliny's account, especially the part where he describes seeing what we would now call a mushroom cloud, followed by a dark cloud sweeping down the mountainside shortly before the sun was blotted out. While at the time he was seeing it he wouldn't have know it, but that cloud meant the death of every living thing in Pompei as the city was engulfed by the pyroclastic flow.
His description was accurate enough, they named the scale of volcanic eruptions after him.
Even though most people don’t encounter such catastrophic events, I sometimes think we, in our time, can comprehend the devastation he saw even more than his contemporaries. We understand the scale of a mushroom cloud that size. I’m not sure if that poignant or plain depressing though.
Most excellent. Your prose really brings those ancient days alive! Have you ever tried your hand at historical fiction?
Glad you appreciated it! I'd like to write a novel someday, but need to make the time.
Fantastic work as always, I'm quite impressed by the increase in editing quality over your older videos whilst still maintaining your eloquent writing style. Keep up the good work.
>Romans having a good time
>Romans absolutely not having a good time
8:15
Very interesting, but are you going to continue the story you were telling about the people? I was looking forward to that.
Thanks for this awesome look into the past, Dr. Ryan! Such a compelling story.
I can’t imagine moving anywhere near the site of Pompeii knowing that it could happen again
Every time I visit, it blows my mind that anyone could live in the shadow of that volcano.
@@toldinstone You might be interested in a recent publication "Could Machine Learning Predict Future Volcanic Eruptions" Azo Robotics March 23, 2022
Also, I am liking the new quality and editing!
This stuff is so cool! Makes me smile knowing I've been lucky enough to visit Pompeii.
I would've been full of the facts if these videos had been created before I went on that trip.
With the right backing and resources I know you could do a television special on Rome that would be on par with The Civil War by Ken Burns.
Love this channel man, thanks for this.
Looking forward to part three! This is fascinating, thanks!
That new sound is great! You’ve done so much in what feels like no time at all. Thank you for these gems. I really appreciate how concisely you convey information but in such a captivating manner - a true history lover.
Great content again as always Dr. Ryan. I've also been enjoying your book as well lately! You're probably my single favorite content producer on TH-cam at this point and just wanted to share -- keep it up!
I've read that early scientists studied Pliny the Younger's account, but couldn't understand the bit about the cloud coming across the bay and so dismissed it as dramatic licence. Yet the rest of his account was taken as strictly factual and accurate.
I've tried to Google when pyroclastic surges were first discovered by science, but it keeps offering me current, recent or this eruption.
Is there any note of one being scientifically verified for the first time? From what I've read, even Martinique's destruction was a mystery to the science of the time.
I've read that the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 helped scientists to determine the sequence of events at Pompeii.
@@toldinstone - yeah, for a while I thought that St Helens was the first pyroclastic eruption since Pompeii (or at least the first to be observed and filmed) and thought that it was odd that there were almost two thousand years between the two eruptions yet nowadays every other eruption seems to have a pyroclastic element. Or maybe they're just the ones that make the news!
@@peytonsawyer562 - Thank you! read the indicated piece, now I'm going to read the rest. never occurred to me that it may have been known by a different name
@@peytonsawyer562 Intermediate, also called andesite composition volcanoes like Vesuvius do not produce much fluid lava (such as the liquid flows observed in basalt eruptions [think Hawaiian eruptions]). The main constructive process that builds the size and shape of intermediate composition volcanoes are pyroclastic eruptions. This type of eruption build composite volcanoes that commonly are conical in shape (Mt. Fuji is a good example) often being the shape that most people recognize as a volcano. Intermediate volcanism is the most common type of volcanic activity associated with convergent plate boundaries. Japan, The Cascade Mountain chain of California, Oregon and Washington, the Caribbean, Italy and Indonesia are all at convergent plate boundaries. There are many other examples around the world.
Another excellent presentation, thank you.
"Romans absolutely not having a good time"
Though not a contemporary piece, I found quite remarkable the frieze of the Greek Courtyard at the Neues Museum in Berlin. Made by Schievelbein, it portrays man's helplessness facing nature's wrath and maintains a "classical aesthetic" though in the XIX century academic fashion. It's an interesting depiction of Pompeii's demise
That introduction was bone-tingling
Your story telling is so good that I feel like I'm there, but grateful I'm not.
Yes! I’ve been waiting for this! I love how the first one was done.
This dude needs a podcast
Really enjoying the improved production value, but the core appeal of this channel remains your awesome grasp of narrative. Keep it up!
Captivating stuff! Your research is impeccable and the description rivetting.
Great video! It must have been an utterly terrifying event.
Romans absolutely not having a good time lmfao
Loved your other videos but im loving this story-oriented experiment even more!!
Love the new video style! Great job Garrett!
Great videos, both parts. I've learned a lot because of your uploads; thank you!
Appreciate all the great content man!
Hi Garret, revisiting this particular video for probably the 5th time😂 i just want to say that this video's intro is up there with my favourite of all your amazing pieces of writing!
Thank you for putting out these amazing videos.
Your best video yet. Well done, keep up the good work.
8:20 love the description for what each color means xD
Excellent production!
Fantastic! I'd love more of these.
Brilliantly told as ever :)
Your channel is really interesting, what a great content!
Greetings from Brazil.
Your thesis statement in this video was so extraordinarily well done!
I absolutely love this material. Wonderful.
thanks Todd, I love you’re videos
The Pompeii series is fantastic, keep up the good work sir!
Awesome work sir
Excellent presentation!!!!
Be patiently waiting for this second part- THANK YOU
Been waiting for this video 😁
Nicely done.
Great story, it is the best way to teach history. Cheers
Awesome series
Good stuff man.
*Fun fact:* The last words of Titus, who ruled the Roman Empire during the destruction of Pompeii, were: "I have made but one mistake". I have the personal theory that Titus was referring in his last words to the destruction of Pompeii. Think about it, we are talking about a man who ruled the biggest empire that ever existed and also spent most of his youth fighting in wars against other mere mortals like him, which made him believe that there was no threat he was not capable of facing. This belief collapsed when a mysterious force of nature completely destroyed a city, without him being able to do anything to prevent it. Imagine the horror and helplessness he felt while visiting the ruins of the city and watching the destruction and death caused by no mere men like the ones he perfectly knew how to defeat, but something whose only possible explanation was the wrath of the gods. It had to haunt him for the rest of his life no matter how hard he tried to repair the damage. His "mistake" was thinking there was nothing that could defy him
Well you're right but he couldn't have visited the ruins, they were completely buried by meters of rocks
@@probabilmente_paolo Even though an important part of the city was covered, watching a big destruction caused by not mere men was scary enough to traumatize him for life
There’s no way at all that Pompeii is what he was referring to.
@@aidanjohnson3169 Why? What are your arguments?
@@OptimusMaximusNero In order for it to have been a mistake, he would have had to have had an option he didn't take. But there was nothing he could have done, so where was the mistake?
Great work.. Write another book! I'll buy it. :)
As a child I recall this story and the story of the plaster casts of victims. It still has the power to fill me with a truly awful sense of terror, similar to The Titanic or the Dresden firestorms but so much more ancient and inescapable... not to mention well documented. Thanks man, I really enjoy your content, its hard to click on the like button when every fiber of your being is mortified though dude...
Great sound design!
This telling is so good.
I bought your book, the audio version. Love the content, but I’m super disappointed that you didn’t narrate it! I’ve come to appreciate your voice, tone, pace inflections etc. so hearing your “voice” in writings, but read by someone else is odd!
Very well done
wow, actually the beginning of that got me . . .
400 mph! So there's no escape, even in a car. 🌋
that was intense
These are awesome.
toldinstone don’t ever miss
Small edit, at 9:25 while discussing the speed of the pyroclastic flow you describe 750 deg F as equal to 100 deg C. Small issue but 750 deg F = 400 deg C
The subtitles are correct atleast. Was kind of hard to hear if he said 100 or 400
@@feffe4036 I heard 400. I was alert to that because so many so ofter blow the F > C conversion, and I promptly mentally checked to see if it was correct to one significant digit. (I use English language Fahrenheit cook books with a Japanese/German metric oven so I have lots of practice in making this conversion in my head)
Great video - seriously. What was the background song used during the Magellan portion and the last portion with the sound of waves and birds?
Both were made from samples by the guy who does my audio.
Thanks!
Deeply appreciated!
I wonder what other mysteries the crater of old Vesuvius held. My imagination takes me to there being a sacred temple stuck right in the middle of a forest grove, dappled in sunlight, steeped in reverence high atop Vesuvius, at the bottom of the crater
So many videos about this topic.
7:22 Cat meowing
I thought I was the only one who heard it!
So very good.
Would you even be able to sail away at early signs of activity, or would the ensuing tsunamis and rough sea conditions make escape impossible?
They could have escaped on the first day, though the strong wind would have made it difficult to sail toward Naples.
Can you make a video about ancient Syracuse?
You need to write another book.
For comparison, Mount Saint Helens May 1980 eruption had a VEI of 5 (barely.) And it was in a sparsely populated area.
I would buy the Naked Statues book but the Kindle version in my region is $28 US dollars. At that price I expect a hardcover copy, not an e-book. $12 is your price ceiling on something like this.
Excellent, again! I could do without the backing track behind your voice. It was distracting and your voice is now a trademark for the channel. However, this is a small item, the video is much appreciated!
One thing though about Pliny's second letter and that final surge on the 25th :
...was ash from 79 ever found in Miseno?
Feels like history class lol 👍
I wonder what further discoveries await?
I like your videos and they are very informative - thanks. Is the time you post them really an issue requiring a vote? Once they are on youtube they don't disappear. Maybe I'm wrong but it's kind of hard to imagine people hovering over their devices in anticipation of any video by any creator. We get online, we look for who has posted then we watch what's there. For that matter, your subscribers are notified and can make haste or view at their leisure.
How do I make a thumbnail my wallpaper? Like for my house?
Water was running, children were running
You were running out of time
Under the mountain, a golden fountain
Were you praying at the Lares shrine?
Pliny the elder:
"Armageddon is near, best I can do is sleep"
What a chad
But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?
And if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like you’ve been here before?
Ha Ha - Vesuvius has told people to leave me - but people keep coming back - they just can't stay away from the fertile ground - and the great harbor - the mountain says - "stay away" - but the people keep living there - the mountain says - "I am not predictable - someday, I will unleash all hell on you" -
Well - if you want to take the chance, I as a mountain, can not object - :-)
How long did it take for Pompeii to be forgotten?
Stay tuned for next Friday's video...
the elder: "wow, that mountain is exploding like a toilet and boulders are raining down from the heavens. Yo, Hartes, can I stay the night?"
I beg to differ on one point: it was a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buried Herculaneum, which is not the same as the pyroclastic surge that ended Pompeii.
First view first like! Best. Moment. Of life. 😏 Huge fan oh what you do. You’re a real gem on an internet full of dumb.
The most important moment in your life.
@@alext2046 Right up there with giving your mom the moment of HER life, son! 💙💙
I really enjoy your videos. Could you do one about Roman Citizenship? I have been told there was a big difference between what rights you had as a roman citizen and non-citizen.
Well, Gaius Secaurus saw the silver lining in the storm cloud though, so to speak. The man made millions gathering up all that pumice and selling it across the Empire as a beauty aid! From then on, ragged finger nails, dry skin and unwanted hair have been dealt with using Vesuvian pumice!
I've got some in my shower! (Don't know if it's Vesuvian, though.)
Lmao he was full on with the grindset